Worst-Case Scenario

by Jeff

Image text: To get serious analyses of hurricanes and oil slicks, see Jeff Masters' blog. To get serious discussions of worst-case scenario thinking, see Bruce Schneier's blog. To get enough Vitamin D, don't read any blogs and go outside instead.

This comic is about the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that is leaking from one of BP's oil rigs.   Just in case you have been under a rock for weeks or are reading this from the past.

Michael Bay is the director of the Transformers series amongst other movies that are famous for explosions, explosions and even bigger explosions and of course impossible and improbable situations.  Bay has been featured in xkcd before for his potential remake of Harriet the Spy.

James Carville is a CNN political commentator and Louisiana native.  He has already said that the govermental response to the oil spill was "too lax and too slow".

Here's Jeff Masters' blog on Weather Underground and Bruce Schneier's blog.